Show fire resistive not fireproof fire proof irow how often do we read in advertisements that a hotel warehouse or factory building is absolutely fireproof A building itself may be proof in that its walls and floors windows and doors are made of combustible noncombustible non materials but bat into these buildings go furniture piper paper carpets draperies and in numerable articles which are highly combustible and which under the stress of 0 heat produce tierce fierce tires fires the great fireproof fire proof equitable building in new york recently suffered a damaging tire fire 30 stories above the ground when ignited gas from a gas main destroyed offices on five floors as the flame ran up the elevator shaft fire resistive as opposed to fireproof has been officially adopted by the ithe national ional board of fire underwriters to designate both buildings and materials few objects are really fireproof fire proof in the sense that they will not burn at all and to say that a fireproof building cannot be destroyed by tire fire Is not the truth because fire in the combus combustible it able contents of ithe most fireproof fire tire proof building in the world can cause the heaviest steel girders to to buckle floors to sag rig and walls to crumble when such terms as wired glass metal window frames tire fire doors shutters automatic sprinklers lers fire tower tire fire reit ardent deat roofing interior alarms and the rest of the nomenclature of tire fire prevention and protection become part and parcel of the vocabulary of the man on the street no slight step will have been taken in the ithe direction of structural tire fire safety it is a distinctly worthwhile effort to acquaint the public with the difference between fireproof fire proof and tire fire res tive materials and construction |